LEVEK
Look A Little Closer
Thank your chosen deity for unassuming
visionaries such as the Floridian David Levesque – Levek, to you and I. While
we may revere Art Garfunkel, granular lo-fi thumbprints and open road
ethno-forgeries in equal measure, it might never have occurred to us to pop
these ingredients into the same flan case.
Look A Little Closer, Levek’s
debut album, flickers with an intermittent spark: when it hits the spot, which
it often does (‘With A Slow Burn’, ‘Girl In The Fog’, ‘Canterbury Bell’), you
find yourself willingly ensnared by the roseate lattice of fingerpicked
acoustic guitar and attractively unassertive vocals, and start making
favourable Elliott Smith comparisons. Then again, ‘Can’t Buy This Love’ and
‘Solemn Feeling Forever Healing’ are uninvolving, forgettable and rather
mannered interludes.
It’s a clear win on points though, taking the attractive
High Llamas-via-Sergio Mendes bossa bait of ‘Terra Treasures’ into
consideration. Imagine an altogether less smug and endlessly punchable Jack
Johnson, perhaps...
Marco Rossi
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